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Il : dosbffai II there IS better salary
pad Ia New YORK for ne~spar<s work than
that given George Alfred losEssial by fhs
Cluciunssi Enquirer. 500 PEI week. tbs cor
respondent haviag almost uuilmitsd ilcens-
as 20 what BE- shall write er where FROM Ihis
salary Is not on account of stog1. II u.ust 10
remembered Al excellent authority among
Ne~ YoTz journalists szys the highest salary
here 70 nen.stockkolding writers on the ely
papefs i 7,oo0 Thla Is not far from right.
s2110 or 6 90 more la other work. Ys.
even si.h $4,000 a. yearly earnings, the
same men in similarly responsible positions IN
business life would earn double or treble that
amount There are jockeys that earn double
that salary, and lawyers ~ the score earn
sioG. .00O annually here and Il must be- borne
in miud that man who can command sio.-
co in Journalism must have nordinate
ability talents ~hlch, had they been wisely
directed IN other channels, would have placed
him on the highest plane.
Now iet us look on the reportorial side Of
Journalism il New York Take The Sun as
an example. because Il Is the fsvorite paper
% work on Mr. Dana apprec ciates his
bright young men and talks about them,
and reporters strive for sits" on his paper
accordingly.
On proof of ability, il there Is vacancy on
the reportorial staff Of The Sun. the candi-
date viii be put 20 work on salary OF Sl5
week, which, II developments are satiSfac-
tory, will be increased 10 SIS, then 70 so
week. When developed into capable and
Trustworthy nowsgstherers the salary is
stopped and they are paid S per column for
sill their matter tnat Is used They are, OF
course, assigned or given definite matters
70 look after II tie assignment does not de-
yelop "copyn amounting 70 more than the
allowance, the reporter will receive fifty cents
an hour for the time consumed. on ten hours
daily, thus being sure Of 8 a day. Street
car or other expenses be must pay. though if
sent out OF town his expenses are paid by the
paper.
WAGES or PENCIL DRIVERS.
The average earnings of The Suns repor-
torial workers IS about SIS per week, and $50
is as well as any OF them do. This paper
keeps a city force OF thirty TO thirty five men
for its morning edition and discards from
three TO ten columns OF matter in type every
morning. Fer matter discarded reporters
are allowed time rates. The editors in this
department are, OF course, on salary. The
day or city editor lays out the work for his
reporters. and the night editor. as of the
boys puts il, keeps rake in one hand and
carving knife in the other" In the carving
he has two assistants
In addition To DANG pere and Dana ils The
Sun has an editorial writer The managing
editor also does some OF that work and has an
assistant for other things. The telegraph
editor has an assistant too The sporting,
dramatic, musical ana literary editors arc
SaIaried
On the evening papers with the exception
of that edition OF The Sun. salaries are much
less than on any Of the morning sheets. The
column rate averages about 50. and the col-
umns are long enough and broad enough to
strike terror 20 the soul of any space
writer. One Of the boys tells me $50
in the way Of salary is muth moro
common in the evening field. FOR editors,
thaa SEQ Reporters are satisfied with SOS as
average earnings on space on the evening
sheets. good telegraph editor VIII get So
to $50: good but of course not particularly
brilliant editorial writer, about $40
Some Of the weekly papers here publish
short stories Of 20O0 10 :. 500 words for which
they pay 81 TO s. each, and there are people
who make $50 70 So a week writing these
stories, some Of them good How is that for
grind.
There are newspaper people here who
make sS00oto 5000 year by writing one
or two letters a week, others who would
jump at Job for $40 a week-McDonald ir